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Bard Faculty

David Kettler

Research Professor

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Political Studies

Academic Expertise: Political Studies

Area of Specialization: Political and social thought in historical context

Biography:

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Professor emeritus, political studies, Trent University, Canada. Author or coauthor: Adam Ferguson: His Social and Political Thought (expanded edition, 2005); Marxismus und Kultur; Karl Mannheim; Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Secret of These New Times; Sociology as Political Education; Domestic Regimes, the Rule of Law, and Democratic Social Change; Exile, Science and Bildung; The Limits of Exile; Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber; The Liquidation of Exile; Erste Briefe: Nach dem Krieg. Editor/translator of several volumes. Numerous articles in professional journals, edited volumes, handbooks, encyclopedias. At Bard since 1991.

Interests:

Research Interests: Exile studies, especially in the Nazi period; German social theory of the pre-Hitler era; politics of law

Teaching Interests: Workshops in selected political theory texts; tutorials in areas of interest

2014 — Publication
“Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?” The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann” (with Thomas Wheatland) pp. 103-112 in Felix Roesch, ed. Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations. A European Discipline in America. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014.